★★★★★
It's only been a year since the Northern Irish trio released their second album. But with a show at the O2 Arena towards the end of 2013 and album number three in their sights, now's the perfect time for a stopgap EP. It's one that finds the band at their most reflective and downbeat. The title track is the closest we get to classic Two Door, powered by thumping disco beats and a hooky guitar riff...
- www.nme.com
2013-10-01
★★★★★
PICK OF THE WEEK Two Door Cinema Club Changing Of The Seasons (Parlophone) Reading this on mobile? Click here to view The strawberry blond bed-wetters deploy swooshing 80s synths and tremulous vocals on this sunny rush of a break-up song. It's like Hot Chip and Phoenix mating in a music shop, their buttocks banging on a Casio keyboard...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-09-30
★★★★★
Kitsuné have always embraced pop music of all descriptions, so when Irish trio Two Door Cinema Club joined their ranks in 2010 with their debut album Tourist History, it was no surprise that it was an album of sparkly electronic-tinged pop. Since then TDCC have tasted success, touring the record worldwide to adoring fans, picked up a few awards, and been gifted the 'critic favourite' tag. Now, the 'difficult second album' Beacon is upon us...
- www.beat.com.au
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Release Date: September 4th, 2012 It seems fall is the season of indie-rock, because so many of my favorite indie bands are releasing records; Band of Horses, Mumford & Sons, and The xx, among others, all have records out or coming out. In fact, Imagine Dragons released a new record the same day as Ireland trio Two Door Cinema Club. I've never been too familiar with this band, but last month, they released the first single from sophomore record Beacon, "Sleep Alone...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-09-17
★★★★★
Not so much a difficult-second-album review as a difficult second-album-review, as Alex Trimble and his cohorts have, apparently effortlessly, tossed out another competent album of breezy indie-pop tunes, albeit with no readily obvious difference from their debut...
- www.musicomh.com
2012-09-06
★★★★★
Northern Ireland trio Two Door Cinema Club are in an interesting place. The cliché of the "difficult second album" often comes off the back of a stellar debut performance. However, the dents in the chart made by debut offering Tourist History, both in the UK and Ireland, were barely noticeable. Yet it spawned five singles, reached gold status, and even scooped the Choice Music Prize (essentially the Mercury Prize's Irish cousin)...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-09-04
★★★★★
Primed as the best of the breakthrough crop in 2010, Two Door Cinema Club's biggest challenge was building on the promise of their debut; instead they seem to be content sticking with Plan A. Sleek, polished and eminently listenable, 'Beacon' deals the requisite dose of jittery guitar and solid, anthemic plays for daytime radio rotation...
- www.clashmusic.com
2012-09-04
★★★★★
Before I begin writing anything about the music, the album art for Irish electro-rockers Two Door Cinema Club's sophomore album, Beacon, is terrible. Not only does it desperately want the same shock value as The Strokes' album art for Is This It, but the suggestive placing of a light fixture in between the model's legs is just embarrassing. Not only is the concept ridiculously adolescent, but it's ill-fitting of Two Door Cinema Club...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-09-04
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